The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-11-05
STATE NEWS.

sale Deposit Company, of Philadel-
phla, and Mrs. Jeanette w. Kelsey,
daughter of the late C. G. Washburn.
Appeal Is taken from that portion OF
the decree which provides that the
sum OF $50, 242 shall be paid to the
Fidelity Company to make up With
the trust fund in the hands of the
company and Cyrus Woodman, the
principal necessary to secure the in
come above named.
THE Indian Bureau has given up all
hopes Cf finding Geo. Bell, formerly of
Ashland, late superintendent OF the
Verrlillion Indian farm, and will
probably appoint Fred C)lby, OF
Tower, TO the position. 1t will be re-
membered that Bells canoe was
found capslzed some weeks ago on
Lake Vermillion, and no trace OF him
has been seen since.
TIVE state has Just issued in book
form the transactions of the Wiscor-
sin Agricultural Society, the proceed
ings OF the agricultural convention at
Madison last February, the papers OF
the State Horticultural Society and
the State Dairymen's Association, to-
gether with those of the University
Department OF Agriculture. The pa
pers form a handsome volume OF l.
l73 pages.
TWENTY SEVEN orphan children have
been provided comfortable homes in
the town OF Highland, Iowa County.
GEORGE Cooking, OF Mineral Point,
killed a wild goose that measured
seven feet from tip to tip of its wings
and four feet from bill to tail.
A COMPANY has been incorporated
TO build an opera house at Madison
with seating capacity OF 1000 at q
cost of $35, 900.
LENA GEIssEkT, recently discharged
from an insane asylum as cured, at
tempted suicide at her home in Mil
waukee on the 20th by setting fire to
Ter clothes, which she had previously
saturated with kerosene. She was
horribly burned and will probably
die.
n. c. FOSTER, the deposed postmas-
ter at Fairchild, Eau Claire County,
has instituted q boycott against j. c.
Marvin, his Democratic successor.
Foster has established q private post
| office and mails all his letters and cir
culars on the railway postal cars,
buys his stamps and postal cards at
the Eau Claire post office In large
| quantities; and furnishes drafts on
Chicago to the Fairchild business men,
thus giving the Fairchid money order
department black eye.
A SHIPMENT OF ten carloads OF bot
tied beer to Sydney and twelve car
loads to Melbourne, Australia, was
made by the Joseph Schlitz Brewing
| Company of Milwaukee, on the 25th.
In each carload was 600 dozen bot
| ties.
A HUNTER near Canton, Barron
County, killed three bears 10 one day.
One of them weighed 275 p0Cnds.
STEPHEN LAWRENCE lost an arm by
| the accidental discharge OF his gun
while he was hunting near his home in
Chipmonk Cooley, La Crosse County.
A GLASS factory is to be started at
La Crosse. The works will be put in
| operation in the spring OF 1888.
A TRAIN newsboy employed on the
! Burlington road is wanted al La
Crosse for robbing passenger OF $40.
The Ashland Gold and Silver
Smelling Company has been incorpor-
ated with capital OF $500, 600. The
iucorporators are: John II. knight,
Thos. Borden and Sam. S. Fi6eld.
Work has been commenced on the
| foundation OF the building, and a large
amount OF machinery is enroute from
the East. Several hundred men will
be employed.
SAM II. BROWN, manager OF the Che
quamegon Hotel at Ashland, says
that house will be kept open all win
ter and additional steam heating ap-
paratus is now being put in.
STEPHEN LAWRENCE lost an arm by
the accidental discharge OF his gun
| while he was hunting near his home
in Chipmonk Cooley, La Crosse Coun-
ty.
THE murdered mayor OF Maxwell,
| Ia, J. O. French, was prominent IN
Eau Claire business circles fifteen
| years ago.
THE bluffs on the Wisconsin side OF
the river opposite Winona, are being
ravag ged by fire and in many instances
| inhabitants have been burned out OF
house and home.
THERE are 40 free high schools in
the state.
CONRAD ULRICH, OF Fountain City,
Trempealeau County, died suddenly
in Kansas City.
| JAMES CLARK, arrested at La Crosse
for setting fire to a disreputable house,
was sentenced TO one years lmprlson
| ment.
A'BUHGLISG burglar who on the 27th
blew open the safe in the gun shop
OF J. Z. Welles, 423 East Water
Street, Milwaukee, besides cracking
the safe succeeded also IN cracking his
own head, which he is now nursing II
a cell at the central police station.
He gives mis- name as Charles Ander-
son, his age az % years, and hi7 occU-
patton rs a carpenter.
THE North Chicago Rolling Mil Com.
pany has completed st Milwaukee an
order for fifty tons OF steel rails, OF q
peculiar pattern, to Re used IN paving
a block in Chicago.
LIEUT.. G. 4. Weller, q veteran OF
the Forty fifth Wisconsin Volunteers,
died at Yankton, OAK.
By the foreclosure of chetlel mort
gage, amounting with accrued interest
to 81, 800. a sheriff's officer has been
placed in charge of the international
Hotel, at La Crosse, the oldest first
class house IL the city. The help was
| discharged and the house shut up.
THREE bears were killed IN one day
by p hunter near Canton, Barron
| County. One OF them weighed 275
pounds.
A CRAWFORD County farmer found
81 900 in gold in hollow under 6
fallen tree. Where the money came
iro n Is a mystery.
| JUDGE CLEMENTsOS, Ofthe Crawford
County circuit court, ruled IN q recent
case that the law relating TO Licenses
for the sale OF liquor required pay
ment In advance.
AT Lancaster, on Tuesday, Miss FL
len Scbreiner was welded to John 81
NOR son. The bride is the daughter